Friday, February 25, 2022

Swedish Grace - Art and Design in 1920s Sweden


This spring’s exhibition at the Nationalmuseum, Swedish Grace, presents art, design, film and fashion from the 1920s.


Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, Olympiad (Javelin Thrower), 1924


Ruth Harriet Louise, The Divine Woman, 1927


Fashion


Refrigerator


Hilding Linnqvist, View of the Square, French Small Town, 1921-1925


Otte Sköld, The Bar in Paris,1923









Saturday, September 18, 2021

Vrak opens 23 September



On the seafloor of the Baltic Sea there is a unique cultural heritage, wrecks and other historical relics from the Stone Age to present time. Vrak – Museum of Wrecks allows digital exploring the well-preserved shipwrecks.


The new maritime archaeology museum which is opening on Djurgården in Stockholm on 23 September, is housed in an old boat hangar.

The mythical wreck “Resande Man” is shown in scale 1:1 and presented using a hologram and the visitor experiences the feeling of moving through an old shipwreck.


In November 1660 Resande Man, a small warship was on its way to Poland on an important diplomatic mission. The ship sank and 38 people lost their lives. 

Cannons and other items on Resande Man were retrieved by Hans Albrecht von Treileben already in 1661. But the position of the wreck was then forgotten. In 2012, the wreck of the Resande Man was finally found.


                                                                                      Cannonballs
 


                                                  Sounding lead - An instrument for measuring water depth.

Plate money - Swedish copper coin minted sometime between 1649-1657.









Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Saturday in the City

 


Elvira Bira...


and her band


Hare Krishna solo


Where have all the herring gone? 

 

 





Two statues resembling moais - Easter Island statues - in the Nacka Strands district of Stockholm

  They are designed by artists Hakan Sanchis and Anna Johansen for a film called The Last Tree.